Nevada County picayune., 1887-01-12
THE COST OF MARRIED LIFE. Some Facts About the Cost of Living by Married and Sin-
 gle Men.

men say that it costs them no more 10 live than it did when they were single" remarked a widow to Mail and Express writer yes. terday.
 '.Da yon agree with them"
 If two and two make four do not. l have had some experience, and l have discovered that 1t costs just twice as much and frequently three times as much for man to live and support q wife as to live single. It does not make any dif. ference how economical q wife is, she cannot do away with inc stern fact that it costs just twice as much tor two people to live as one. Of course single men who are inde- pendent and have plenty of spend ing money nvariably get rid of a good deal per annum anyway. 4 wife can save money for this class of men, provided one can keep him away rom the clubs, make him give up his unnecessary and expensive bachelor habits, and put at least a part of those super tluous expenditures np0n the household and her own expenses. But if he does not follow his course his expenses are doubled. \ firm and resolute wife can save money to husband who is mall- ing money. therefore 1t behooves all men who are prosperlng 10 marry economical wives. Take the case. though, of clerk on salary of e60 month, or 5l5 per week, what would he save by mar rying! Suppose he tries hoarding; it will cost him and wife @l2 per week, sI0 at the least calculation, whereas he only paid S6 or &5 for himself. See what a small mar gin he has for saving money after marriage. He can't save a penny. Washing and other iucideDtal ex- penses will eat up the 8 or &3 margin; it makes no difference whether it ia S5 or $3. Well, the g margin you'd soon put them Ill debt. | he remains single. he obtains board at &6 per week, S3 week for incidental expensee and puts in the savings bank SIP per pear. To do this he has 10 wear SS and Sl0 suits of clothes, never to go to the theater, unless once or twice a month he goes iu the gallery at 25c admission, and to live a close and economlcal life. Suppose he keeps house. He can rent small house in the suburbs of Brooklyn for s20 a month. Take It for granted that the house is furnished by some cash he hap pens to have. then he has nothing to do but pay the rent. buy food aud fuel and clothes for himself and wife. Can he do it on that Sl5 a week? Not much; but he can come near living this way than by boarding. His food and fnel need not cost him over S23 or S25 per month. leaving d balance of Sl5 for the hundred other lttle expeu- ses attached to running even a modest domestic household. His expenses for ear fare going and coming from business, foot up at the end of the month Possibly he might he able to pull through three or four months, hut l doubt it. The question then is how can a SlJ week young man marry and li'e happily and not run be- hindl He must he sensible and marry il Sl0 week young woman who after she is married must continue to be in a sJ0 a week mood, They will have to board of course. as both will have to leave home and work. Al Sl2 q week tor both they will have a margin of %l3 to go upon for incl. denual expenses. These are the experimental and actual facts about the Sl0 q week young man. and there is no way to reduce his expenses; therefore it is worse than folly for him to marry unless he marries a Sl0 week yonng we man. have read articles in the Mail and Express about cheap living, but they sounded like the theories of an impractible dream er.".-- New York Mail and Ex- press.
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